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Resource page for May 2024 public tour

Here are some resources for preparing for the in-gallery (Cross Currents) May public tour:

G259

Check out info on Virgil Ortiz, Jagg and Gage, minute mark 14:30 in this new accessions video.

Jeffrey Gibson’s punching bags: Jeffrey Gibson on the origins of his beaded punching bags

 

G301 (Reimagining Native/American Art) Feel free to walk into 302 as well.

(NOTE: This exhibition closes on May 27. For the May 30 and 31st public tours, guides will station in the Prairie School galleries, G300)

Watch Jill and Bob’s training on this gallery installation.

Wing Young Huie, Kids Playing in Frogtown (see Art Adventure set, American Stories, for information)

Christi Belcourt, here is the PDF of some of the flora and fauna depicted:

It’s a Delicate Balance – flora and fauna

 

G364 (American Gothic)

From the Mia blog: The Minnesota legacy of Gordon Parks, a life of seeing and being seen

Here is a link to the training with Curator Casey Riley, from January 9:

Training on Gordon Parks exhibition

Here are the panels, labels, and subpanels in the exhibition:

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G373 (and feel free to wander into G374)

Check out Dennis Jon’s training on Part 2 of this Collage/Assemblage exhibition.

If you go into G374, Joe Minter’s assemblage provokes lots of conversation. Learn more about Joe Minter by listening to Mia’s podcast, The Object: Yard Show:  The World According to Joe

 

February 2024 BHM tour

Here are some resources for the February in-gallery public tour, Celebrating African American Art, as part of Black History month celebrations.

First, here is a link to all African American art currently on view at Mia (updated for March 2024).

 

Here is a link to the Cross Currents public tour sign-up, where gallery assignments are noted.

 

Here is the training by Jean Ann Durades on January 18:

Part 1: G301-304

Part 2: G322

Part 3: G353 (not on Cross Currents, but good artworks to include on BHM private tours)

Part 4a: G364/365

Part 4b: G364/365

 

2024 self-guided tour flyer:

2024 Self-Guide Template Celebration of African American Art QR final

 

Here is a link to Bisa Butler’s talk.

 

From your colleague Marne Zafar, a detailed tour outline:

Black Heritage-History Tour Notes FEB 2024

 

Galleries 303 (also can access 301, 302, and 304)

Nellie Mae Abrams, “Housetop” quilt

Gee’s Bend quilt information, Mia blog

Lamar Peterson: A Self-Portrait

Leslie Barlow (move ahead to 10 minutes in the video): studio visit

Leslie Barlow’s MAEP exhibition and her talk, recorded

Renee Stout, Biography (also includes a pic of Soul Regenerator)

Object file on Henry Bannarn’s Cleota Collins

Photo of Cleota Collins

 

Gallery 322

Bisa Butler, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Notes from Josie Owens from a convo with Bisa Butler:

“Bisa tried to imagine their past and future personalities. The symbols refer to how she sees them. The fan is a symbol of success. In Ghana in the markets the more lucrative businesses have electricity and can offer fans to their customers. This woman will be a successful businesswoman. The hearts are on the skirt of the woman who looks like the kind friend. The bling is for the woman who is the fashionista. The high heels refer to Michelle Obama’s inauguration heels. She’s a leader and powerful. She said that she had to redo the face of the fan woman. She didn’t like how she looked.”

Video of Jean Ann’s tour, including Joshua Johnson’s painting. (and Bannarn’s Cleota Collins)

Winfred Rembert’s obituary

Video: Patsy Rembert introduces ‘Winfred Rembert. All of Me’ in New York

From the Mia blog: “I wanted people to know”: The moving history behind Winfred Rembert’s “The Beginning”

From Kate Christianson, a great documentary about Rembert now streaming online at Amazon Prime:

All Me: The Life And Times Of Winfred Rembert

 

Galleries 364/365: American Gothic: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson

From the Mia blog: The Minnesota legacy of Gordon Parks, a life of seeing and being seen

Also, from The Object podcast: to come

Here is a link to the training with Curator Casey Riley, from January 9:

Training on Gordon Parks exhibition

Here are the panels, labels, and subpanels in the exhibition:

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GCA242167_GordonParks_SubPanels FINAL

GCA242167_GordonParks_Labels FINAL

 

PBS video from Jean London:

Why Gordon Parks’ Most Famous Photo Almost Wasn’t Released

 

From Rose Stanley-Gilbert:

This is a SHORT NPR article with lots of pictures. If someone wants to know about Gordon Parks — this will tell you the many AMAZING and creative things he did.

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/06/10/1102645123/gordon-parks-photography

Background on the FSA:

From Mary Costello:
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Galleries 375 (also can access G376)

A catalog of James Phillips’ works that includes Cosmic Connection

Joe Overstreet’s work discussed (28:24 on video) in Curatorial training in 2019

William Edmondson, Ram (see Jean Ann’s tour video posted under G322–and check out the Art Adventure set, Artist’s Inspirations, of which the Ram is part.)

Curator Bob Cozzolino’s training on Bob Thompson and Beauford Delaney: Kunin Collection Focus on Bob Thompson, January 10, 2019

New World Objects of Knowledge

A new research resource from your colleague Kay Miller:

New World Objects of Knowledge compressed

“A stunning, richly illustrated hardback cataloging key artifacts from across Latin American art, nature, and history.

From the late fifteenth century to the present day, countless explorers, conquerors, and other agents of empire have laid siege to the New World, plundering and pilfering its most precious artifacts and treasures. Today, these natural and cultural products—which are key to conceptualizing a history of Latin America—are scattered in museums around the world.

With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and museums hosting these objects. Each artifact is accompanied by a comprehensive essay covering its dynamic, often global, history and itinerary. This volume will be an indispensable catalog of New World objects and how they have helped shape our modern world.”

Norman Akers, Interference and a Tiny Spot of Hope, 2019

Here are some resources to learn more about Norman Akers and his work:

There is some good information in the label, to at least discuss the elk’s presence:
Interference and a Tiny Spot of Hope is a presentation of the past, present, and future. Akers combines flat imagery with illusionistic space to provide an immersive and yet open-ended experience into personal, historical, and cultural issues, such as identity, disruption, dislocation, and belonging. In his paintings, Akers uses Osage stories as metaphors over illustrations, and complexity over a singular, fixed interpretation. The most prominent figure in the painting, the suspended or falling elk, is an important figure in Osage cosmology and becomes a symbol to represent ideas of being between two worlds (Osage and non-Osage), and the precarious place of being between the earth and sky, a fundamental Osage principle of balance in the world. Wind turbines found within the painting and within Osage homelands disrupt the spatial order and space between the earth and sky, and according to Akers, “obscure[d] the horizon….and the blades cut into the earth”. Other features within the painting, including tree stumps and skeletal remains along the riverbed, reference the environmental and cultural disruptions within Osage landscapes.

And here is an article about the artist:
https://www.kansan.com/arts_and_culture/theme-of-lost-identities-within-boundaries-ingrained-in-art-professor-norman-akerss-exhibit-contested-territories/article_93fade32-5e4d-11e5-864f-fb3c6c82acc4.html

And there is this video, and a painting that seems to have some similar themes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MCaPpLxTCI

Black History Month resources

Here are some resources for Black History Month or for giving tours focused on African American/Black American artists:

Mia’s website compilation for Black History Month

 

African American artwork currently on view:

African American artist/works on view, February 2024

 

Walkthrough with Mia Guide Jean Ann Durades (to come)

 

Tour Outlines

(If you care to share tour outlines. please email to Kara or Debbi, to include here.)

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Tour Break: Winter Solstice December Cross Currents 11.17.22

Here is the recording of the training for the December 2022 Cross Currents public tour, Winter Solstice:

Tour Break: Winter Solstice December Cross Currents

Here is the chat:

Chat for December Cross Currents

Here are the presentation slides, with the resources:

Tour Break_ Winter Solstice Cross Currents

And here are the best practices for engagement from guides who have given multiple Cross Currents tours, and some information and reminders about the tour format:

Best Practices for Cross Currents tours